OGBUAGU, Chibuzo Samson

Date of Birth: Monday (Afo) 15"' November, 1948 State of Origin: Abia Local Government Area: Umuahia Contact Address: Plot 138, Orji Uzor Kalu Housing Estate Ehimiri Umuahia, Abia State Contact Telephone 234-8035821024, 08053672599 Professor Chibuzo Samson Ogbuagu is a top academic, a seasoned administrator, a diplomat and a very ebullient strategist. He is so organised and calculated that his performance in office looks 'custom made". He Is a Public Orator and Public Opinion Analyst as well as a zealous patriot. He has lived a stainless life in private and public dealings. He is a clean man who values integrity and will never succumb to pressure of corruption. Education • Methodist Boys'Secondary School Oron Akwa Ibom State 1961 1965 WASC Grade 1 • Methodist College Uzuakoli for HSC ( A-Levels) Three Principal Papers • University of Nigeria Nsukka 1970 1974 B.Sc. Political Science. 2nd Class (Hons)Upper Division University of Yale, New Haven Connecticut USA MA Political Science ( Distinction) 1977. M.Phil Political Science ( Distinction) 1978 Yale University New Haven. Connecticut USA Ph D 1981. Job Experience Assistant Lecturer in Government Continuing Education Centre. ( CEC) University of Nigeria. 1972 1974 • Tutor in Government/History Ovvhare Grammar School. Okpara Waterside Delta State NYSC 1974 1975 Junior Fellow, Dept of Political Science, University of Nigeria Nsukka 1975 1976 • Acting Instructor. Yale University. Dept of Political Science. 1981 • Lecturer. University of Pennsylvania Philadelphia Department of Political Science 1982- 1983 • University of Maiduguri Nigeria. Department of Political Science and Public Administration Lecturer 1. 1983 1984 • Senior Lecturer University of Uyo, Akwa Ibom Slate. Department of Political Science Senior Lecturer and Ag Head of Department. Dept of Public Policy and Administration. University of Calabar. 1984 1990.. 1987 1990 respectively. • Associate Professor/ Ag Head of Department. University of Calabar 1993 1996 Abia State University Uturu ( ABSU) 1996 date. On Leave of Absence to the State Service. Appointed Professor of Political Science . Abia Slate University Uturu 1996 • Director of National Orientation Agency ( NOA) Abia State 2000 2002 Hon Commissioner for Education and member of the Slate Executive Council. Abia Stale Security Council 2002 - 2005 • Appointed Secretary to the State Government and Secretary to the Executive Council Abia Slate 2002 2005 Awards, Prizes. Distinctions and Honours • Best All-round Best graduating Student Political Science . University of Nigeria. 1974 • University of Nigeria Junior Fellowship 1975 1976 • Federal Government Scholar. 1979 1981 M. Phil with Distinction. Yale University USA 1978 • Yale Fellowship 1979 1980 University of Calabar. Senate Research Grant 1986, 1989, 1990 respectively Honoured by the Church of Nigeria Anglican Communion as a Distinguished Knight of St Christopher ( KSC) Order of the Faithful of God ( Honorary) of the Methodist Church of Nigeria. Umuahia Diocese Merit Award for Excellence in Service by Methodist College Uzuakoli Old Boys Association National Merit Award for Excellence by Old Boys Association of Methodist College Uzuakoli • Ezinwa Ohuhu by the Catholic Women Organisation. Holy Trinity Parish Ohuhu Umuahia Distinguished Administrator of the Year Award by the Nigerian Union of Journalists, Abia State • Award of Honour for Distinguished and Outstanding Service to Community by the Abia Lagos Think Tank. Membership of Professional Associations • Africanist at Yale, New Haven, USA • Member African Studies Association USA • Member African Studies Committee university of Pennsylvania USA • Member International Political Science Association (IPSA) Canada. • Member, Nigerian Political Science Association Publications • Strategies for National Development in Nigeria • Nigeria Development Policies and Programmes • Moving Nigeria to Greatness: Some Thoughts • Landmarks in Diversified and Qualitative Development • Governor Orji Uzor Kalu in Abia since 1999 • Political Executive and Higher Civil Servants in a Democratic Order Some of his journal articles include • The Nigerian indigenization policy: Nationalism or Pragmatism • The Politics of Industrial Location in Nigeria: African Development • The Place of Oil in Nigeria's Economic Development • The Nigerian Civil Service: A Search for Quality and Excellence The Nigerian Journal of Public Administration • State Creation and the Task of Nation Building in Nigeria: Indian Journal of Politics • National Self-Reliance and Indigenous Technological Development, Unical Quarterly Monographs • Problems of Explanation, Prediction and Control of Social Phenomena • A Focus on Ohuhu Leadership: The Forum • Achieving Effective Decision Making : A Discourse • Sustainable Growth-Oriented Strategy for Economic Development in Nigeria • Workshop Monograph on Leadership Role Office Procedures Public Service of Society • Speaker of Students Union Parliament, University of Nigeria Nsukka • External Examiner to the Department of Political Science, University of Nigeria, Nsukka • External Examiner, Dept of Political Science, Alvan Ikoku College of Education • Member, Senate Research Grant Committee, University of Calabar • Graduate School Board, University of Calabar • Chairman, Graduate Committee, Institute of Public Policy and Administration, University of Calabar • Examination Officer/co-ordinator, Institute of Public Policy and Administration, University of Calabar • Bishop's Verger. Diocese of Calabar • Lay Synod Secretary, Diocese of Calabar • Member Board of Mission, Diocese of Calabar • Member Provincial Standing Committee Church of Nigeria, Anglican Communion • Member Provincial Synod of the Anglican Church of Nigeria. • Chairman, Committee of Secretaries of State Governments of the East Geopolitical Zone Role Models: Winston Churchill, Nelson Mandella, Kofi Anan, Bill Clinton and Mahatma Ghandi- he saw them as Great men who have risen above narrow parochial loyalties and firmly stood for solid and principled causes. His advice to the Igbo Youths and Igbo Leadership include: - "standing uncompromisingly on the path of integrity and abiding firmly on the dictum: Fidelis in Minimis (i.e. Faithfulness in little things). A full realization that all good/ excellent ICONS respect and live for history, showing deep seated integrity, honesty, vision and love for community, nation, humanity and above all, our eternal God". Professor Ogbuagu re-iterates "May God record all God's creation who are committed to transparently serving humanity. May Leaders of the Third World (Developing Nations) help their individual nations to transcend their marginal status/location in the World Comity of Nations. May they focus their leadership/attention towards poverty alleviation/eradication in the society/country so that the black race in particular will join the values of developed and progressive nations/politics in the planet earth. May the Leadership of the peoples and nations of the Third World, cooperate among themselves via economic, political and intellectual relationship to transcend their marginality in the global setting particularly in the global or globalizing world. May the developed areas of the world accept the incontrovertible fact that there is mutual interest and need to foster and encourage and sustain development and progress among North and South of the global system. May our eternal and Almighty God hear our prayers. So let it be". Professor Chibuzo Ogbuagu is a loving husband to Professor Mrs Stella Chinyere and loving father to twin sons- one a medical doctor and the other an engineer who were altar-boys in the Church. Source Publication: The Igbo Icon